Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac L. Howard P.E., Mississippi State University; Braden T. Smith, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

LaboratoryAbstractThis paper describes a construction materials laboratory that interfaces what are often lessdesirable activities for engineering students (i.e., writing, presenting) with physical experimentsand calculations. The paper’s primary objective is to present the recent incorporation of panelevaluations to expose students to presenting and to emphasize competition. Writing exerciseshave been part of the laboratory for years, and are described in some detail. Emphasis is on oralcommunication. As might be expected, student responses to these panels have varied widely,though overall assessments to date seem to indicate value added to the laboratory experience.1.0 Introduction and BackgroundTechnical communication (oral and written) is a formidable

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas G Schmucker, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

.) • Writing Consultant (CLEAR) 4910 15 to 30 3 • Oral Presentation Consultant (CLEAR)Original Instructor Team Model within the Professional Skills SpineAs initially conceived, each of the three courses utilized an instructional team to organize,facilitate and delivery instruction, and provide feedback to the students. Table 2 shows typicalclass sizes, the number of times that the class has been offered in an academic year, and theinstructor team in each of the courses. The instructor teams and the courses were specificallydesigned to integrate with the Communications, Leadership, Ethics, and Research (CLEAR)Program in the College of Engineering at University of Utah.In the original model, the lead instructor was a

Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova; Michele Eodice

videography, and fine art or folk pieces” (p. 95). Findings were positive for im-proving writing skills, increasing interest in the field, and fostering critical thinking. The potentialfor transformative learning seems inherent in teaching creatively as well (Coate and Boulos 2012). Specific to engineering instruction, comparative results showed improved performance andsatisfaction in a thermodynamics class following pedagogical changes such as including “activelearning” (students designed a mock television game show, for example) and using multimedia topresent information (Byerly 2001). In her thermodynamics course, Dillon’s (2014) students created“poems, videos, collages, songs, sculptures, devices, and photographs . . . [which led to

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 2: Program Design

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qudsia Tahmina, The Ohio State University at Marion

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

required to develop conceptual and technical design reviews. Weekly activities include discussion posts on technical and communication topics related to the design project. Peer evaluations are conducted via Purdue’s CATME Peer-Evaluation tool three times during a semester and serve as a measure of teamwork. Technical writing is considered a critical piece of project documentation. Project deliverables such as oral presentations, design reviews, peer evaluations, and prototype testing are used to assess student learning objectives.III. Challenges in Teaching and Learning at the regional campusHigher Education institutions especially land grant institutions have relied upon the traditionalstudent population admitted to the central campus. With the

Conference Session

Collaboration and Communication in Problem-based Learning

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mohsen M. Dorodchi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Nasrin Dehbozorgi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Aileen Benedict, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Erfan Al-Hossami, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Alexandria Benedict, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

quizzes. Activereadings serve as pre-work, as mentioned in section 3, to prepare students for completing in-classactivities by enhancing their foundational knowledge, especially the remembering andunderstanding levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (BT) [34, 35] for relevant concepts. Next, we have arange of in-class activities where students follow guided instructions and discuss with peers intheir small groups. During each of these in-class activities, students perform at least one of thefollowing tasks: code completion, code snippet debugging, answering multiple-choice questions,writing pseudocode, and drawing flowcharts. Each of these tasks falls under different BT’scategories, demands the use of different skills, and requires students to pay attention

Conference Session

Design in the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Matthew S. Bollom; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

lecture time can be repurposed for a moreblended learning experience in future offerings thus creating weekly modules. The weekly laboratory period focuses on directly training the students in technical skills,such as those listed above that were previously offered on an ad hoc basis, in order train studentsto solve a multidisciplinary guided design project using these skills in teams. The laboratorieswere designed and are taught in conjunction with BME faculty instructors by undergraduateBME student assistants (SAs), allowing them to gain valuable teaching experience while givingour sophomore students an opportunity to learn from and interact with their peers. The guideddesign project requires the student teams to incorporate the knowledge

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Robert Welling, Seattle University; Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University; Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

my academic “pulse” comes simply and solelyfrom a heart of curiosity and desire for knowledge. In terms of identity development, Iexperienced the same curriculum as my peers but may have received them differently due to mydiffering motivations. It is with this background and initial sense of self that I approached the writing of thethree narratives that follow. Within each narrative there is analysis that comes from myimmediate processing of the experience. After each narrative, I provide further analysis whichhelps to connect the narratives and place them in the larger context of personal-professionalidentity alignment. At the end of the paper, I present a final analysis of how my experiencesmight be useful in thinking more broadly

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raissa Seichi Marchiori, University of Alabama; Siyuan Song, The University of Alabama; Sepehr Khorshid, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

development, and engineering education. Through these research topics, Raissa has been publishing papers for peer-reviewed journal and conference pro- ceedings. Also, she is part of Dr. Siyuan Song’s research lab, the Safety Automation and Visualization Environment (SAVE) Laboratory, which integrates technologies and education themes to improve build- ing performance and safety engineering.Dr. Siyuan Song, The University of Alabama Dr. Siyuan Song is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental engineering at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include Occupational Safety and Health, Training and Workforce Development, Engineering Education, Building Information Modeling

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1: Experiential Learning in Fluids, Structures, and Course/Lab Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Sizemore, Mesa Community College

side. Finally, the student “Evaluates” the final equations and calculates the unknown quantities.Also, as part of the “Evaluation” step, the student inquires if the answers make sense and are consistentwith initial estimates of reasonable answers.The author acknowledges Dr. Robert Abel of Olympic Community College, who used the 5-Step problem-solving method, which the author modified to be the SOLVE method.C. Instructions for Writing Lab ReportsGeneral instructions for all labsConducting experiments, tests, measurements, and other studies and writing reports about them is animportant part of the engineering profession and something you need to learn and practice. We haverules and conventions for reporting information so that peers and

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Green, Mississippi State University; Jerry Emison, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

in the course. Not only would thishelp engineers better communicate to others the benefits engineering provides, something theCommittee on the Engineer of 2020 also says is necessary, we, as instructors, could begin theconversation. To accomplish this objective we required numerous writing assignments, requiredoral presentations, and ensured that there was ample class discussion. For the second version ofthe course we added the requirement that each student read a national newspaper on a regularbasis and, at some point of their choosing in the semester, provide a copy of an article they readrelated to engineering and public policy and their analysis of the article and the policy issue.Course DesignAlthough the course was designed to meet the

Conference Session

FPD9 -- Technology & Textbooks

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Kosky, Union College; William Keat, Union College; George Wise, Union College; Robert Balmer, Union College

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

of computational fracture mechanics. Page 11.429.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Developing a Freshman Introduction to Engineering TextbookAbstract What should a freshman introduction to engineering course achieve and how will anappropriate textbook help meet the course goals? In this paper, we summarize our experiencessearching for a text and ultimately how and why we decided to write our own book. It can be said that the primary purpose of a first year introduction to an engineeringcourse is to win the hearts and minds of first year college students who are considering anengineering

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kosta Popovic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Janie Szabo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

two weeks, which a student completes in a group with a partner.The class sizes range from about 10 up to 30 students, depending on the section, and each lab isscheduled for 160 minutes. Each term, between 10-15 sections of lectures and labs (each) areoffered. Given four lab exercises each term, each student is responsible for writing at least two ofthe reports, while the other partner at a minimum helps with the experimental setup and dataacquisition during the lab meeting. The students usually have one week to write-up their finalreport. The student who is not responsible for the writing of a specific lab is often of limited helpduring post-lab analysis of data, and is often not prepared for the material prior to coming to thelab

Conference Session

PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

Collection

2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Pradip Peter Dey, National University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

] .MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS OF TURING MACHINESAlan Turing provided a mathematical definition of computation in 1936 [41]. In the same year,Emil Post independently developed algorithm machines that have come to be known as Postmachines [29]. Turing machines and Post machines are proven to be equivalent and their theorydeveloped in 1930s and 1940s has provided the foundation of the theory of computation. Turingmachines are the most popular models for recursively enumerable sets mentioned above.Following Cohen [6], we define Turing machines as follows. A Turing machine is composed of six components: 1. An alphabet, , which is a finite non-empty set of symbols from which input isbuilt. 2. A READ/WRITE TAPE, divided into a sequence

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Matt Eliot, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Emma Rose, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

code captured any decision points that educators made that would impact all students in the college including those that they had no direct contact with. For example, one faculty member while seeking assistance in writing a large research grant proposal considered options that would create potential learning opportunities for all students. Page 11.388.6 Magnitude students affected Increase in

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 12

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University; Jorge Americo Acosta Feliz

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

also affirming the imperative for educators to recognize thediversity of Latinx communities and to develop partnerships that foreground local communityknowledges and resources. Funds of Knowledge and TranslanguagingAlthough the aforementioned previous descriptions of funds of knowledge did not addressmultilingualism, other writings by Moll foregrounded the role of bilingualism as a vital resourcein learning for many Latinx youth.16 If schools and educators embrace the ethical imperative tosustain rather than erase minoritized students’ home cultures, then sustaining home languages isvital to education in a democracy.17 Accordingly, translanguaging has gained prominence as animportant approach across academic

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, SFAz Center for STEM, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, SFAz Center for STEM at Arizona State University; Anna Tanguma- Gallegos Gallegos

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US Patent # 7904323, Multi-Team Immersive Integrated Collaboration Workspace awarded 3/8/2011. She also has twenty-five peer-reviewed publications. She has

Conference Session

Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

specific problem, such as writing a paper for ajournal with a high rejection rate, approaching a tight proposal deadline, dealing with anunproductive graduate student or a rebellious undergraduate class, find out which colleaguesare likely to be helpful and seek them out.Working without clear goals and plans and accepting too many commitments that don’thelp achieve long-term goals. Faculty need to make commitments wisely and develop cleargoals and specific milestones for reaching them. Periodic feedback from the department headand peers can also be helpful.Others SuggestionsFind one or more research mentors and one or more teaching mentors, and work closely withthem until you become successful. Most faculties have professors who excel at research

Conference Session

Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

their responseswith their peers in a group setting and write down their responses.The instructor then shows the students a framework using an additional scenario (odorsemanating from a sewer). The instructor explains how the solution would involve not only atechnical solution but also a consideration of the 4 Ps. The students are then asked to re-writetheir questions with the 4 Ps in mind. After the activity the students were asked to write downwhat they learned and what surprised them about this activity. These three scenarios are thenrevisited by the students at the end of the semester after they have learned the technicalsolutions.In this presentation, I will discuss the students’ responses before and after the framework wasdiscussed and at

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin H. Lovgren; Michael J. Racer; Anna P. Phillips

received her B.A. in English from Memphis State University, an M.A. in English from TheUniversity of Memphis and is completing her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a concentration on cognitivepsychology. She has been an Instructor of composition, technical and professional writing and an inter-disciplinaryinstructor with the Department of Civil Engineering. Her research interests include: team teaching, learningcommunities and academic success; peer editing/peer feedback in composition, and underrepresentation of girls inscience and engineering fields. Page 5.311.13

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Walthea V. Yarbrough; Sarah J. Rajala; Richard L. Porter; Hugh Fuller; Laura Bottomley; Mary Clare Robbins

first year writing and composition course 3,4; and ECE 292D, ahands-on team based design course offered to upper class students as well 5,6. All were offeredas an alternative to the introductory course (E100) that had little academic content, noengineering problem solving, and consisted of a large lecture room format with informationdissemination as the major goal. Although the alternate courses were excellent and wellreceived by the students, none could be easily scaled up to accommodate 1100+ freshmenengineering students. In 1996 and again in 1997, a new version of freshmen engineering(E497F) was offered that incorporated many of the elements of the alternative courses 7. Thiswas offered to 250-350 engineering freshmen randomly selected each

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

research university in the American Southwest. Students worked in pairs onhomework assignments to support peer learning. We replaced one question from each of the sixhomework assignments with design challenge deliverables. Students worked in subteams on oneof the three algal production phases (i.e., growth, harvest, extraction). They also developedindividual accountability through jigsaw sessions in which they explained their subteam’s workto students from other production phases. They built whole-class consensus through “parley”sessions that involved decision matrices.We describe the design challenge and our study, in which we investigated how a designchallenge threaded through a sophomore course might provide students with a picture ofauthentic

Conference Session

It's All About the Student: Integration, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Self-Efficacy

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aliye Karabulut Ilgu, Iowa State University; Suhan Yao, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

dialogues. However, instructor facilitation may result in an instructor-centered discussion whichlimit students’ participation and voice [18], and student-facilitated discussions provide analternative approach. Peer facilitation can foster a sense of student ownership and help studentsfeel more at ease in expressing their opinions [19], and allow practical hands-on experience ofbeing a discussion facilitator [18]. Compared to instructor-facilitated discussions, research onstudent-facilitated discussions is still limited focusing more on the student facilitation techniques[11], [20]. This study aims to explore how overall design and management of student-facilitateddiscussions influence peer interaction and critical thinking in engineering

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendra Woodberry Brinkley, Virginia Commonwealth University; Falcon Rankins, Virginia Commonwealth University; Stevara Clinton, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Chemistry; Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

STEM fields. (3) (6)These programs are often characterized by the rigorous on campus academic training to preparematriculating students for freshman courses and social activities to help familiarize students with“college-life.” Reports on current summer bridge programs suggest that students who participatein such programs are more apt to successfully complete their first and second year of theiracademic careers when compared to their peers who did not participate in such programs. (4) (6)The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Louis Stokes Alliances for MinorityParticipation (LSAMP) Program provides support for a number of universities as they implementprograms to increase the number of URM students successfully completing STEM

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

credibility and support, as evidenced bythe fact that it is fully institutionalized within the College of Engineering. The latter isparticularly important as 2001-02 was the last year of NSF SUCCEED funding.MAPS offers peer mentoring, Supplemental Instruction (SI) for gateway courses, tutoring, studygroups, skill development workshops, professional development activities, and a technical andprofessional development resource library. MAPS is also intricately integrated with academicadvising, the freshman engineering curriculum, and the junior/senior professional developmentcourses. Continuous improvement is driven by assessment results including, but not limited to,demographics, academic performance, percent of students earning a D or an F or

Conference Session

Innovating Inclusivity: Rethinking Access and Empowerment in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University; Patricia Nicole Delgado, New Mexico State University; Luis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo, New Mexico State University

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

in college and beyond. The EcologicalValidation Model of Student Success and its educational practices reflecting the social evolutionframed this study. Information was collected through surveys and interviews from three studentcohorts. The findings revealed how this culturally asset-based program reinforced the identity ofstudents as Hispanics by centering culture and community aspects that students were familiarwith, promoted teamwork with peers as a strategy to make learning better situated in theirinterest to support each other, and contributed to creating a research space where students feltintegrated, included, and valued considering who they were or represent. Programs that center onstudent asset-based features and pedagogical

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Bruce Brydges, SUNY Potsdam; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Mary Margaret Small, Clarkson University; Gail Gotham, St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES; Peter Turner, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

institutes was based on educational research that has documented key featuresof professional development and careful evaluation of prior professional development activitiesin the region. The optimal partnership was defined as one where teachers partner with workingscientists, mathematicians, and engineers who have sophisticated equipment in laboratory workspace, computing facilities and other resources of higher education. During the past two years,approximately 250 individuals attended 22 institutes; some of the teachers attended multipleofferings. The efficacy and impact of these institutes has been assessed through pre- and postcontent knowledge or capability tests, evaluation forms, and peer-review of lessons developed asan outcome of the

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Nicholas Brown, Western Michigan University; Johan Fanas Rojas, Western Michigan University; Alyssa K. Moon, Western Michigan University; Ali Alhawiti, Western Michigan University; Pritesh Yashaswi Patil, Western Michigan University; Parth Kadav, Western Michigan University; Kira Hamelink, Western Michigan University; Wendy R. Swalla, Western Michigan University; Zachary D. Asher, Western Michigan University

offering.Specifically how the course was intentionally developed to include practical applications ofindustry-standard writing and to center student learning with regular feedback and practice. Next,we break down the core concepts for autonomous vehicle engineering across engineering andcomputer science disciplines. We address the issue of prerequisites and how the class conceptswere ultimately organized and how existing university research and computer labs were utilized.Lastly, we also discuss group dynamics and techniques for ensuring course project teams havediverse majors. Our results section is primarily composed of survey results from our third courseoffering. We show the evolution of skills from the mechanical engineering students and thecomputer

Conference Session

Design Thinking and Creativity

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Tech; Barbara G. Ryder, Virginia Tech; Margaret O'Neil Ellis, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

environments in different ways thantheir male peers altering their continued interest in computer science.Personal FactorsPersonal factors such as motivation, sense of belonging, personal fulfillment, and identity caninfluence persistence to degree. Research shows that while these personal factors are unique toeach student, educational environments can be structured or altered to influence some personalattributes in ways that positively impact retention.Motivation can impact how students face and persevere through challenging concepts and coursework. Research using project based computer game development has shown that assignmentscan be structured to facilitate student motivation and encourage them to work through difficultmaterial [13]. Motivational

Conference Session

History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

transform materialscience.3,4 In order to expose undergraduates to the fast growing field of nanotechnology, a newcourse was developed as an elective for seniors and graduate students at Rowan University.There have been numerous similar courses developed to address this topic in a multitude ofways, therefore this effort is in no way a novel endeavor. There are nanotechnology courses thatinvolve students writing research summaries 5 and courses that incorporate various hands-onactivities6,7, among others.8-11 This course in particular was designed with two goals in mind; onewas to expose students to nanotechnology and the other to familiarize them to literaturereviewing skills. Therefore, the primary learning objective of the course was to enable

Conference Session

Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Cardenas, Harvey Mudd College

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Berkes9 write, “Co-management of specific areas and resources is carried out withthe participation of different actors that typically try to find ways to learn from their actions andadapt the behavior to the consequences of their own, and others’, actions, otherwise they cannotform any collaborative arrangement.” Interestingly, they further state that the ecological area orresource itself can be seen as an actor, reacting unpredictably and non-linearly to its own“management,” and that the adaptive quality of co-management is well-suited to handling thisuncertainty.In particular, co-management scenarios can be viewed “…as a means to create the political spacewithin which communities and other groups can develop the knowledge and skills to solve